Chapter 75 – Department Store Dungeon (1)
Kang Shin-ye parked her car in the underground parking lot of the department store.
It looked like he was going to lay down the sheets and take a short nap while Catherine and I ate with Ahn Hye-bin.
Well, you must be tired after driving for four hours.
As usual, she put Katrin on her leash and got out of the car.
Since the 10th floor, the top floor of the department store, is a restaurant, I moved toward the elevator.
Other department store customers who saw me whispered.
“What is that couple… ?”
“Why are you acting embarrassingly in a public place?”
I was just following the law, but I was treated as an eccentric who walked around with a woman on a leash.
That’s right, even though Katrin looks like a normal woman at first glance, he’s levitating right in front of her eyes, so why not point out that part.
I wondered if a leash looked weirder than levitation…
Katrin whispered in chlorine.
-Never mind, Master! They must be jealous of us!!
I’m grateful for caring about me, but no matter how I looked at it, people’s eyes seemed a little far from jealousy.
Soon the elevator took us to the 10th floor.
I found the name of the store I had received via text message on the map placed in front of the elevator.
I saw it right away and walked towards it.
A woman with long platinum hair who was under the sign that said [Hong Kong Cuisine Restaurant Dohwaru] Saw me and approached me.
“Hello, Mr. Gong Dae-seung.”
“Hello, Hyebin.”
Of course, she wasn’t wearing a yellow nurse’s outfit today.
It was an everyday wear consisting of an unbuttoned beige cardigan, a white blouse, and a blue skirt.
She was already a woman who owned the house, but she was very pretty.
“By the way, what about Hyesol?”
Ahn Hye-bin’s younger sister whom we saved—Ahn Hye-sol—was nowhere to be seen.
Today she was supposed to bring her sister.
She said, “Oh, that…” She bowed her head slightly.
“Hye-sol is a bit sick.”
“Sick? Then Hyebin, it’s okay if you stay here… ?”
I found out while talking via chat, but her parents died at the same time in a car accident the year before last.
Grandparents on both sides have long since passed away.
Similar to the Hunter Academy, it seemed that she was supporting her sister on her own with the subsidy from the Healer Academy.
In fact, it is said that living support is not a small amount by any means, so it is not so tight.
It’s not a high-priced academy, but they say it’s enough to send her to a small academy in Gangnam.
Maybe I would have done the same if her mother hadn’t been sick.
“Ah, saying I’m sick makes me a strange person. I’m sorry, I’m not actually sick, Hye-sol took a nap and didn’t wake up. I must have been watching You Tube on my phone until late last night because it was the weekend and playing games.”
So, it seemed like he made a simple dinner and came out to meet me.
I thought I was already on my way to the car, so I couldn’t cancel the appointment.
Well, since I’m young, I can do that.
I just smiled and entered the restaurant.
It’s a restaurant with a certain price range, so the interior is very clean.
I followed the waiter’s guidance to the seat Ahn Hye-bin had reserved in advance.
Katrin sat next to me and Hyebin Ahn sat across from me.
“Have you ever tried Hong Kong cuisine?”
Ahn Hye-bin asked while looking at the menu the waiter handed out.
“No. It’s the first time today.”
“Ah, is that so… ? Please tell me in advance. It may not suit your taste…”
“I eat well when I’m in a hurry.”
If it’s something that people can eat, I can fool myself with 3,000 times the taste.
And I don’t really hate Chinese food.
Hong Kong cuisine is a bit different from regular Chinese food.
“Then I’ll order the course with the least likes and dislikes.”
“All right.”
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After dinner, I went to the checkout counter.
This was a restaurant.
Although there are prices.
All were delicious, but I personally liked the dim sum the most.
There were many different types.
Hyebin Ahn took out her wallet and handed her card to the cashier.
When I heard the total amount, it was really expensive…
While she was eating, she said that I would pay half, but then she decided to pay the whole amount, saying that there would be no point in meeting today.
“Oh, why are you doing this?”
The cashier clerk muttered to himself in a puzzled voice.
Is there a problem with the POS machine?
However,
Tung—.
There was a dull sound.
It sounded like a switch going down.
Ahn Hye-bin looked around her and said.
“It must be a blackout.”
“Iknow, right.”
All lights in the restaurant were turned off.
I could understand why the cashier was flustered.
Because the power of the force machine suddenly went out.
Ahn Hye-bin took out her smartphone and asked her employee.
“I will transfer the account. What is your account number?”
At the same time she tried to turn the screen on by pressing the sleep button on her smartphone.
But no matter how much she pressed the button, it didn’t respond.
“Weird… She was 80 percent left.”
Is the battery broken?
Once, I agreed with her to pay the bill and pay me later.
So I also took my smartphone out of my pocket.
My smartphone didn’t turn on either.
I felt something strange.
“Catherine, aren’t yours on too?”
“Yes, it won’t turn on, Master.”
Just in case, I asked the staff if the smartphone was working well.
Soon the staff shook their heads.
Other customers in the restaurant were also checked.
A child who was holding on to a smartphone suddenly got agitated saying that the smartphone did not work.
A customer said that the phone was suddenly cut off and put on an absurd expression.
‘All electronics are dead…’
One possibility came to mind.
But honestly, I wanted to deny it.
Because the accident scale is too big.
I was worried about Kang Shin-ye, who was left alone in the underground parking lot.
If I had known it would be like this, I would have taken it with me.
I sighed inwardly.
When I thought about going underground.
“Kyaaaaagh—!!”
Outside the restaurant, a woman’s screams hit my ears.
Not only us, but the other customers in the restaurant all turned their heads in the direction of the sound.
Are there other academy students or active hunters besides us here?
It could have been because it is the most famous and most visited department store in Gangnam.
But the odds are slim.
I couldn’t be optimistic.
“Catherine, take the lead.”
“I get it!”
“Hyebin, can you work as a healer?”
“Yes, of course.”
The fortunate thing out of all the misfortunes was the existence of Ahn Hye-bin.
If you are in the third year of Healer Academy, you have learned everything to some extent.
I just wanted her to be competent as a healer.
I ran towards the scream.
A woman was trembling all over her body.
And in front of her was a monster.
A ferocious hyena that walks on two legs.
It was a B-class monster—’Knoll’.
There is a ‘Normal Knoll’ at the bottom of Class B that does not hold a weapon, and a ‘Weapon Knoll’ at the top of Class B that does not hold a weapon.
“Master.”
“What’s the matter.”
Chump, Katrin suddenly drooled in her drool.
“These meat is so delicious! If you put that Dim Sum inside, it would be perfect!!”
“…”
I’ve heard that hyena meat isn’t that tasty, but hyena monsters are a bit different.
In any case, it was Catherine who was full of composure.
Even though it feels trustworthy because of that.
And Catherine, like me, seemed to have the most delicious dim sum.
“Go and kill me quickly.”
“I get it!”
Katrin spread her wings and flew towards Weapon Knoll.
After gathering magic in her hand, a magic circle formed on the edge of her hand.
She just waved her hand around.
The blade-like wind from her hands separated the hyena monster’s head, arms, and legs from her torso.
The woman who saw the scene in front of her eyes
“Kyaaaaagh—!!”
… Once again she cried out loud.
It was only because she had witnessed Ochebunshi out of nowhere.
Ahn Hye-bin opened her mouth wide and said.
“You’re amazing, Catherine.” .”
Catherine was being praised, but I felt proud for no reason.
But that pride is short-lived.
I had no choice but to accept the reality.
She turned her head towards Ahn Hye-bin.
“It looks like this entire department store has moved to the other world.”
“Yes… ?! Ah… !! That’s right. Suddenly, the electronic devices fail and a monster appears in the department store…”
Transitional Dungeon.
As much as the range of a specific space is transferred to the other world, the transferred space itself becomes a dungeon.
Anything that was in that space is transmitted together.
Whether it is a building or a person.
In other words, through this entire department store building in Gangnam, we were transferred to the other world.
It is a type so rare that even the academy textbooks do not deal deeply with it and only mention it once.
And I got caught up in that very rare type…
“If it’s a transition type dungeon, you have to wait for the gate to be made, right?”
“Yes, it is.”
The way to escape the transition type dungeon is simple if simple.
We keep waiting for a gate to appear somewhere that connects us to the world we are in.
Of course, it is unknown when the gate will open.
Furthermore, you have to survive from the monsters in the dungeon.
Ahn Hye-bin approached the frightened woman and asked.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes? Ah yes. Go, thank you.”
She told me to go inside the Dohwaru, a restaurant where there were no monsters.
Then the woman nodded her head and got up from her seat and ran towards Dohwaru.
The healer heals party members, but as much as she heals ordinary victims or induces them to evacuate, the way she treats ordinary victims is quite calm.
“Sah, save people!!”
“It’s a monster!!”
As soon as the woman entered the Dohwaru, another scream was heard.
Kang Shin-ye is worried, but she also has a hunter’s license anyway, and she has a career as a helper.
Even if he couldn’t kill monsters, he would hide it much better than normal people.
First of all, let’s go down to the underground parking lot while killing monsters in the department store one by one and rescuing ordinary people.
Ahn Hye-bin nodded and agreed to my proposal.
“Hyebin, if there are any injuries, please heal them.”
“… Yes, I will do my best.”
She was somehow powerless to answer.
